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How to block porn on Windows 11

Safe Surfer makes it easy to block porn and other harmful online content on a Windows 11 device. This guide will show you how to install Safe Surfer protection.

Step 1: Visit the Safe Surfer dashboard

If you were directed to this guide from the online Safe Surfer dashboard (My Safe Surfer), skip ahead to step 2.

On the device to be protected, click the Microsoft Edge app (or any other web browser app, such as Google Chrome) on the taskbar. Visit the Safe Surfer dashboard (https://my.safesurfer.io), then log in to your account. Click the Devices menu on the left-hand sidebar, then click the "New device" option.

Click the "Mobile, laptop, or desktop" option.

Click the Windows option.

Click the Download for Windows button.

Open the File Explorer app, then click the Downloads folder on the left-hand sidebar. Open the Safe Surfer app installer.

On the window that appears, click the Install button.

The app installer might automatically download some Microsoft software to run the app, which can take a moment. If this process takes more than five minutes, you can find more information by clicking this link.

Once Safe Surfer has opened, click the "Install protection" button.

On the prompt that appears, click the Connect button.

Enter a name for this device so that it can be identified later, then click the Next button.

If you're planning to assign this device to a specific person on the Safe Surfer dashboard later on, you don't have to enter the name of the person as part of the device name.

You can assign this device to a person, or you can click the Skip button to do this later.

Click the Finish button. When Windows asks for your permission to make changes with Windows PowerShell, click the Yes button.

If you chose to connect an account earlier on, Safe Surfer will offer you to set a PIN. Once you've entered a PIN for the app, click the OK button.

Safe Surfer will offer you to disable a small amount of Windows features that could be abused to evade filtering. If you're not using this device for a work situation that requires VPN connectivity, we strongly recommend selecting the Yes option. If you click Yes, when Windows asks for your permission to make changes with Windows PowerShell, click the Yes button.

If you chose to connect an account earlier, Safe Surfer will offer you to enable optional features. We recommend leaving app blocking selected, and also leaving the social media monitoring and nudity detection features selected if you're protecting a child. (The social media monitoring and nudity detection features will increase battery consumption for laptop devices when not charging.)

If you're protecting your own device, you can unselect the social media monitoring and nudity detection features, as they don't affect the quality of filtering.

Before restarting the device, click the web browser app to go back to the Safe Surfer dashboard.

If you've already restarted the device, once you've logged back in to the same user account, you can then open the web browser app, go back to the Safe Surfer dashboard (https://my.safesurfer.io), and proceed with the following instructions.

Click the account drop-down box at the upper-right corner, then click the Log out option.

Once you've made sure that all work in any open apps has been saved, click the "Restart now" button in the Safe Surfer app (if you haven't restarted already).

Step 3: Verify protection

You can verify the protection installation by visiting our protection check guide. Once you've verified the installation, you can return to the current guide.

Step 4: Stop uninstallation

Click this link to find out how to stop Safe Surfer from being uninstalled.

Protection complete

Great work! This device is now fully protected. If you have any other Windows 11 devices you would like to protect, simply start again from the top of the guide. If you would like to protect a different kind of device, visit our installation guides article.

Updated on: 31/08/2026

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